We’ve watched Snowden’s documentary “CitizenFour” this weekend in order to have a full understanding of how pervasive the surveillance mechanism is and to know more of the man.
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Category Archives: Surveillance
Stairway to Tyranny
by Veterans Today on January 22, 2015
For most any government, maintaining power is the ultimate bottom line. Without a power foundation solid as a 47-story steel-frame skyscraper, a government cannot climb the stairway to tyranny—hold the aphrodisia.
Spy Files 4.0
One of those who stand up to the system, even at an early age, is Julian Assange.
Others would connect him to the CIA to malign his reputation, but we can look at where he is today, and conclude that CIA agents are mostly spending their most valuable time with ISIL rather than holed themselves up in a virtual prison cell like the Ecuadorian embassy.
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The Hunt for The Duqu Virus
The Digital Hunt for Duqu, a Dangerous and Cunning U.S.-Israeli Spy Virus
By Kim Zetter
Boldizsár Bencsáth took a bite from his sandwich and stared at his computer screen. The software he was trying to install on his machine was taking forever to load, and he still had a dozen things to do before the Fall 2011 semester began at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where he taught computer science. Despite the long to-do list, however, he was feeling happy and relaxed. It was the first day of September and was one of those perfect, late-summer afternoons when the warm air and clear skies made you forget that cold autumn weather was lurking around the corner.
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Secret Manuals Show the Spyware Sold to Despots and Cops Worldwide
By Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Boire
When Apple and Google unveiled new encryption schemes last month, law enforcement officials complained that they wouldn’t be able to unlock evidence on criminals’ digital devices. What they didn’t say is that there are already methods to bypass encryption, thanks to off-the-shelf digital implants readily available to the smallest national agencies and the largest city police forces — easy-to-use software that takes over and monitors digital devices in real time, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
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